SYSPRO, a developer of best-of-breed, award-winning enterprise resource
planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization,
announced today that SYSPRO 7 will be available for general market
release in 2013. SYSPRO 7 is all about adapting to the growth
requirements of organizations by giving them the scalability, mobility,
and enhanced performance they require in today’s ultra-competitive
marketplace. In keeping with SYSPRO’s collaborative approach, the new
solution is currently in “community preview” to SYSPRO resellers and
partners. The announcement was made here at the company’s Winter 2012
analyst roadshow before 32 leading technology analysts.

For more than 30 years, SYSPRO ERP solutions have been known as the
“go-to” solution for global mid-market manufacturing organizations
requiring a more targeted, better value choice than currently available
from industry giants. With each successive release, SYSPRO has
demonstrated to industry veterans that its highly flexible and
customizable full suite of ERP solutions provides substantial
productivity and business growth advantages.

“SYSPRO, as a privately held company with 100% of our focus on
satisfying our customer and reseller community (as opposed to the
investment community), ensures that our priorities and people are all
about achieving customer satisfaction and delivering a high quality
solution at a high-return price point,” explains Phil Duff, CEO, SYSPRO.
“We have an enviable track record in the ERP market by providing
manufacturing organizations globally with the flexibility and
customizability they need to differentiate themselves. The release of
SYSPRO 7 is the next evolution of our commitment to helping our clients
make their business more agile.

“SYSPRO knows what it takes to survive and thrive, we are able to
innovate and deliver the market’s very best ERP solutions, and our
newest products like SYPSRO 7 continually reflect the changing times,
empowering our customers to simply adopt and embrace those new
technologies determined by market trends and conditions,” further
explains Duff.

Enhanced User Interface and enterprise-wide customization

Leveraging the company’s award-winning flexibility and customization
capabilities delivered previously for user roles in Release 6.1, SYSPRO
is now expanding its powerful user interface (UI) capabilities. Styled
along the lines of Windows 8, SYSPRO 7 brings active tiles and touch
capabilities to its enterprise UI, enabling manufacturers and
distributors to easily create tailor-fit environments for their SYSPRO
solution that will feel and operate with all the advantages of a
home-built solution – without the maintenance and upgrade disadvantages.

To support large-scale customization for businesses, the new UI also
enables enterprise-wide modifications and themes. The new industry
layouts can be particularly helpful for corporate alignment within
specific vertical industries, of which the SYSPRO solution is well known
for having additional expertise in the food, medical devices,
machinery/equipment, electronics and pharmaceuticals/chemicals markets.

SYSPRO 7 responds to improved productivity requirements

Recognizing the necessity among mid-sized manufacturing and distribution
companies for faster performance, capacity and volume requirements,
SYSPRO 7 provides powerful processing for higher transactional
throughput whilst building on SYSPRO’s commitment to being scalable for
small through to large enterprises. SYSPRO 7’s mobile platform will also
enable easy, anywhere access, and improved reporting capabilities
including remote report generation.

One-click installation

Using a cloud infrastructure, SYSPRO’s Software + Services deploy
methodology will enable SYSPRO 7 to be installed easily and remotely
with just one click, and allow organizations to run SYSPRO in a WAN/LAN
environment efficiently whilst also providing greater control over
security and firewall settings across the network and/or Internet.

CIO, CTO & Developer Resources

“For years, one of the strongest recurring statements by our customers
has been that SYSPRO solutions seem like they’ve been purpose-built for
each customer. With the new SYSPRO 7 capabilities, companies will now be
able to gain even more productivity improvements for widest-possible
employee use. We are always looking to help our customers achieve the
very best bottom line results possible using our system,” concludes
Brian Stein, CEO of SYSPRO USA.

SYSPRO ERP CERTIFIED AND VALIDATED BY THIRD-PARTY EVALUATION FIRMS

The SYSPRO solution has received multiple industry and technology
validations and awards over its successful 30-year history. Most
recently, Technology Evaluation Centers certified the SYSPRO ERP
solution in 2012 and praised the company’s support for “real world
business processes.”

According to TEC Research Analyst, Aleksey Osintsev, “The SYSPRO
software can be a worthy acquisition for small and medium manufacturing
and distribution companies operating in multiple vertical industry
sectors, and especially those whose business is more complex, requires
multistage processes and includes multi-site production, delivery and
customer service. SYSPRO ERP can also be a valuable asset for companies
that need a highly detailed and dynamic business process modeling
instrument in order to precisely understand their business, determine
directions for improvement and easily align them together.”

About SYSPRO

SYSPRO has earned the trust of more than 14,500 companies globally for
its suite of visionary software that enhances the competitive thrust of
small/mid-sized manufacturers and distributors. The company’s adherence
to developing technology based on the needs of customers is among the
reasons why SYSPRO enjoys one of the highest customer retention rates in
the industry. Follow SYSPRO on:

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